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Quote:Dear Friends,

We have a choice.
Epidemics, like earthquakes, tornadoes and floods, are part of the cycle of life on planet Earth.
How will we respond?
With greed, hatred, fear and ignorance? This only brings more suffering.
Or with generosity, clarity, steadiness and love?
This is the time for love.

Time for Bodhisattvas. In Buddhist teachings, the Bodhisattva is someone who vows to alleviate suffering and brings blessings in every circumstance. A Bodhisattva chooses to live with dignity and courage and radiates compassion for all, no matter where they find themselves.

This is not a metaphor. As Bodhisattvas we are now asked to hold a certain measure of the tragedy of the world and respond with love.

The Bodhisattva path is in front of us. The beautiful thing is, we can see Bodhisattvas all around. We see them singing from their balconies to those shut inside. We see them in young neighbors caring for the elders nearby, in our brave healthcare workers and the unheralded ones who stock the shelves of our grocery stores.

As a father, if she called me, I would fly to the ends of the earth to help and protect my daughter. Now she and her firefighter/paramedic husband and my toddler grandson await the virus. His urban fire department, like many hospitals and first responders, does not have masks. Eighty percent of their work is emergency medical calls and they all expect to get the virus. They will not be tested, because the department can’t afford to lose the help of too many of their firefighters.

What can I do? What can we do?

In this moment we can sit quietly, take a deep breath, and acknowledge our fear and apprehension, our uncertainty and helplessness… and hold all these feelings with a compassionate heart. We can say to our feelings and uncertainty, “Thank you for trying to protect me,” and “I am OK for now.” We can put our fears in the lap of Buddha, Mother Mary, Quan Yin, place them in the hearts of the generations of brave physicians and scientists who tended the world in former epidemics.

When we do, we can feel ourselves part of something greater, of generations of survivors in the vast web of history and life, “being carried” as the Ojibwa elders say, “by great winds across the sky.”

This is a time of mystery and uncertainty. Take a breath. The veils of separation are parting and the reality of interconnection is apparent to everyone on earth. We have needed this pause, perhaps even needed our isolation to see how much we need one another.

Now it is time to add our part.
The Bodhisattva deliberately turns toward suffering to serve and help those around in whatever way they can.
This is the test we have been waiting for.
We know how to do this.

Time to renew your vow.
Sit quietly again and ask your heart: what is my best intention, my most noble aspiration for this difficult time?
Your heart will answer.
Let this vow become your North Star. Whenever you feel lost, remember and it will remind you what matters.

It is time to be the medicine, the uplifting music, the lamp in the darkness.
Burst out with love. Be a carrier of hope.
If there is a funeral, send them off with a song.

Trust your dignity and goodness.
Where others hoard…..help.
Where others deceive……stand up for truth.
Where others are overwhelmed or uncaring…..be kind and respectful.

When you worry about your parents, your children, your beloveds, let your heart open to share in everyone’s care for their parents, their children and their loved ones. This is the great heart of compassion. The Bodhisattva directs compassion toward everyone—those who are suffering and vulnerable and those who are causing suffering. We are in this together.

It is time to reimagine a new world, to envision sharing our common humanity, to envision how we can live in the deepest most beautiful way possible. Coming through this difficulty, what we intend and nurture, we can do.

In the end, remember who you are is timeless awareness, the consciousness that was born into your body. You were born a child of the spirit, and even now you can turn toward the awareness, and become the loving awareness that witnesses yourself reading and feeling and reflecting.

When a baby is born our first response is love.
When a dear one dies, the hand we hold is a gesture of love.
Timeless love and awareness are who you are.
Trust it.

Dear Bodhisattva,
The world awaits your compassionate heart.
Let’s join in this great task together.

With metta,
Jack

Source: https://jackkornfield.com/the-bodhisattv...the-virus/

(04-20-2020, 04:50 PM)Infinite Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:Dear Friends,

We have a choice.
Epidemics, like earthquakes, tornadoes and floods, are part of the cycle of life on planet Earth.
How will we respond?
With greed, hatred, fear and ignorance? This only brings more suffering.
Or with generosity, clarity, steadiness and love?
This is the time for love.

Time for Bodhisattvas. In Buddhist teachings, the Bodhisattva is someone who vows to alleviate suffering and brings blessings in every circumstance. A Bodhisattva chooses to live with dignity and courage and radiates compassion for all, no matter where they find themselves.

This is not a metaphor. As Bodhisattvas we are now asked to hold a certain measure of the tragedy of the world and respond with love.

The Bodhisattva path is in front of us. The beautiful thing is, we can see Bodhisattvas all around. We see them singing from their balconies to those shut inside. We see them in young neighbors caring for the elders nearby, in our brave healthcare workers and the unheralded ones who stock the shelves of our grocery stores.

As a father, if she called me, I would fly to the ends of the earth to help and protect my daughter. Now she and her firefighter/paramedic husband and my toddler grandson await the virus. His urban fire department, like many hospitals and first responders, does not have masks. Eighty percent of their work is emergency medical calls and they all expect to get the virus. They will not be tested, because the department can’t afford to lose the help of too many of their firefighters.

What can I do? What can we do?

In this moment we can sit quietly, take a deep breath, and acknowledge our fear and apprehension, our uncertainty and helplessness… and hold all these feelings with a compassionate heart. We can say to our feelings and uncertainty, “Thank you for trying to protect me,” and “I am OK for now.” We can put our fears in the lap of Buddha, Mother Mary, Quan Yin, place them in the hearts of the generations of brave physicians and scientists who tended the world in former epidemics.

When we do, we can feel ourselves part of something greater, of generations of survivors in the vast web of history and life, “being carried” as the Ojibwa elders say, “by great winds across the sky.”

This is a time of mystery and uncertainty. Take a breath. The veils of separation are parting and the reality of interconnection is apparent to everyone on earth. We have needed this pause, perhaps even needed our isolation to see how much we need one another.

Now it is time to add our part.
The Bodhisattva deliberately turns toward suffering to serve and help those around in whatever way they can.
This is the test we have been waiting for.
We know how to do this.

Time to renew your vow.
Sit quietly again and ask your heart: what is my best intention, my most noble aspiration for this difficult time?
Your heart will answer.
Let this vow become your North Star. Whenever you feel lost, remember and it will remind you what matters.

It is time to be the medicine, the uplifting music, the lamp in the darkness.
Burst out with love. Be a carrier of hope.
If there is a funeral, send them off with a song.

Trust your dignity and goodness.
Where others hoard…..help.
Where others deceive……stand up for truth.
Where others are overwhelmed or uncaring…..be kind and respectful.

When you worry about your parents, your children, your beloveds, let your heart open to share in everyone’s care for their parents, their children and their loved ones. This is the great heart of compassion. The Bodhisattva directs compassion toward everyone—those who are suffering and vulnerable and those who are causing suffering. We are in this together.

It is time to reimagine a new world, to envision sharing our common humanity, to envision how we can live in the deepest most beautiful way possible. Coming through this difficulty, what we intend and nurture, we can do.

In the end, remember who you are is timeless awareness, the consciousness that was born into your body. You were born a child of the spirit, and even now you can turn toward the awareness, and become the loving awareness that witnesses yourself reading and feeling and reflecting.

When a baby is born our first response is love.
When a dear one dies, the hand we hold is a gesture of love.
Timeless love and awareness are who you are.
Trust it.

Dear Bodhisattva,
The world awaits your compassionate heart.
Let’s join in this great task together.

With metta,
Jack

Source: https://jackkornfield.com/the-bodhisattv...the-virus/

100% YES!

copper and silver ions can destroy viruses. most medications such as botanic quinine and chloroquine while I have no doubt as to their effectiveness are not exactly preventative measures and diseases almost always develop resistance to meds. copper and silver ions when absorbed in to the skin physicslly destroy pathogens. please see me other thread for more details. as for when I think a food shortage, I think of going to find places to fish.

never doubt the seriousness of this. I can hardly believe absolutely no one has mentioned a disease like mono where youll recover can actually turn in to meningitis if you get it multiple times. and we are not supposed to trust W.H.O.! look up those sitcom level terrible videos of their officials refusing to speak of Taiwan. because their positions must be in line with what chinese government officials say about taiwan 'OH THAT PLACE DOESNT EXIST!' lunacy. there even news stories of coronavirus test kits being contaminated with chinavirus. for all we know they could be intentionally spreading it. this makes me think of hank hill with a beer in his hand 'WHyuh? would anyone in chinas government lie about clownvirus?' *sips beer*

(04-26-2020, 11:41 PM)Navaratna Wrote: [ -> ]copper and silver ions can destroy viruses. most medications such as botanic quinine and chloroquine while I have no doubt as to their effectiveness are not exactly preventative measures and diseases almost always develop resistance to meds. copper and silver ions when absorbed in to the skin physicslly destroy pathogens.

For cleaning surfaces or purifying water I wouldn't doubt its effectiveness, in the same way chlorine is used to clean swimming pools and bleach is used to clean surfaces, but absorbing those things into your skin or body at high concentrations can obviously be harmful or fatal. Pardon the skepticism but would you care to clarify how this is safe/effective or link me to the other thread?

A Rita said, a 100% Infinite,

(04-28-2020, 11:53 PM)Cyanatta Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-26-2020, 11:41 PM)Navaratna Wrote: [ -> ]copper and silver ions can destroy viruses. most medications such as botanic quinine and chloroquine while I have no doubt as to their effectiveness are not exactly preventative measures and diseases almost always develop resistance to meds. copper and silver ions when absorbed in to the skin physicslly destroy pathogens.

For cleaning surfaces or purifying water I wouldn't doubt its effectiveness, in the same way chlorine is used to clean swimming pools and bleach is used to clean surfaces, but absorbing those things into your skin or body at high concentrations can obviously be harmful or fatal. Pardon the skepticism but would you care to clarify how this is safe/effective or link me to the other thread?

Thread
https://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthre...?tid=18172

Research on silver ion therapy, sorry if it's only semi-accessible
https://www.researchgate.net/publication...tervention

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...d_Hospital

Here's the point I'm trying to make with people. As a -preventative- measure. Wearing copper is not unhealthy, you're not going to drop from wearing copper bracelets and rings.

And silver, same thing. You will not drop from wearing silver rings or chains. However working in a silver mine full of DUST inhaled through eyes and nose over decADES or ingesting it directly is a way to turn blue. Your body doesn't need silver for anything, but at the same time the condition that causes blue skin isn't even necessarily deadly it's undesirable and can cause complications but for the most part it's not as bad as like chemotherapy. It'd take enormous amounts and the blueness of your skin would be a very gradual change. I'm picturing how people get chemotherapy and look what it does to them, but the alternative is dying from tumors. It could be a last resort.

You will however absorb the ions via your skin and they will enter your blood. This is the fact. It is in the same way you should not hold pieces of galena or pyrite. They absorb through your skin.

My opinion is maybe copper is the way to go for people, you need copper in your diet. I'm not suggesting people eat it, only wear it. Silver is unaffordable. But when copper turns that teal color it has oxidized and should no longer be worn.

Brass doorknobs, olympic swimming pools with copper silver ion filtration systems. Copper mesh or brass chain mail for medics. Over their faces, on their car door handles. I am amazed at how few people are trying to kill this virus instead of just waiting to get sick or getting a ton of expendable P.P.E. which is deeply contaminated and needs to be handled to be disposed by some unfortunate person. Excuse me mr government expert, what --preventative measures-- should an individual take? *in a hank hill voice* doctor: "Why would anyone want to spare themselves a visit to the E.R. when you could just be prescribed chloroquine at a mark-up rate with no insurance?"

Also look at this after seeing the edgar cayce video about azurite. Hathor was known as god of turquoise/miners and Eilat stone is named after the mix of 8 copper minerals in one, the national stone of Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timna_Vall..._of_Hathor


"The hieroglyphics, sculptures, and jewelry found in the temple totaled several thousand artifacts, have provided a lot of important information for archaeologists.[16] A rock carving of Ramses III with Hathor is located at the top of a flight of step carved into the stone next to the shrine.[6] When the Egyptians left the area in the middle of the 12th century BCE, the Midianites continued using the temple. They erased the evidence of the Egyptian cult, effaced the images of Hathor and the Egyptian hieroglyphics, and built a row of stelae and a bench of offerings on both sides of the entrance. They turned the temple into a tented desert shrine and filled it with Midianite pottery and metal jewelry. There was also a bronze serpent found near the sanctuary."

"n 1959, Professor Beno Rothenberg, director of the Institute for Archeo-Metallurgical Studies at University College, London, led the Arabah Expedition, sponsored by the Eretz Israel Museum, and the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology. The expedition included a deep excavation of Timna Valley, and by 1990 he discovered 10,000 copper mines and smelting camps with furnaces, rock drawings, geological features, shrines, temples, an Egyptian mining sanctuary, jewelry, and other artifacts never before found anywhere in the world.[12] His excavation and restoration of the area allowed for the reconstruction of Timna Valley's long and complex history of copper production, from the Late Neolithic period to the Middle Ages.[13]

The modern state of Israel also began mining copper on the eastern edge of the valley in 1955, but ceased in 1976. The mine was reopened in 1980. The mine was named Timnah after a Biblical chief."